US Patent Issued to Beckhoff Automation on March 11 for "Data transmission method, segment telegram and automation communication network" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,250,092, issued on March 11, was assigned to Beckhoff Automation GmbH (Verl, Germany).

"Data transmission method, segment telegram and automation communication network" was invented by Holger Buttner (Verl, Germany), Dirk Janssen (Verl, Germany), Erik Vonnahme (Salzkotten, Germany), Guido Beckmann (Verl, Germany), Thomas Rettig (Rheda-Wiedenbruck, Germany) and Thorsten Bunte (Gutersloh, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an automation communication network, a distribution node is provided with a plurality of input/output interfaces, each connected to a network segment having at least one subscriber. The network segments are each ...